Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2011

gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem. The resulting lower-temperature SOFCs could provide a cleaner, more efficient alternative to conventional power plants for generating electricity from coal reserves. About half of the carbon dioxide is then recirculated back to gasify the coal to coal gas to continue the process.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2023

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have fuel flexibility; in addition to hydrogen, various kinds of hydrocarbon fuels, such as natural gas (methane), methanol, ethanol, biofuel, and coal can be used via external steam reforming (ESR) or direct internal reforming (DIR). The best ethanol concentration (60:40 v% ethanol: water) provides 0.83

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

BG Group has approved implementation of the first phase of a US$15-billion project to convert coal seam gas (CSG) to LNG—the first major commercial project to do so. Total gross discovered coal seam gas reserves and resources presently amount to an estimated 17.3 Coal seam gas and LNG. Source: QCLNG EIS.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a Request for Information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0002686 ) on the design, construction and operation of a new facility to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of a full-scale rare earth element (REE) and critical minerals (CM) extraction and separation refinery using unconventional resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Methanol in China. Delving into the emissions side, Chen et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. Two product streams exit this reactor, free fatty acids (mixed with water) and sweet water (glycerol mixed with water). Avjet Biotech, Inc. Hydrolysis. Step 1: Hydrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

In a project ( DE-FC26-04NT42237 ) funded by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne has developed a high-pressure dry-solids feed pump that could make gasification economically competitive by improving efficiencies and introducing low-rank Western coal as a viable feedstock option. Source: NETL.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

million, taking their projects through to the demonstration phase, and towards the successful commercialization of their technologies. Coal Products Limited (CPL), “Bio-waste to biochar (B to B) via Hydrothermal Carbonization and Post-Carbonization”. Lapwing Energy Limited, “Reverse Coal”. Project Funding: £2,941,301.44.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2010

The VärmlandsMetanol plant will be the first full-scale commercial biomass-to-methanol plant. In addition to the methanol, the plant can deliver district-heating water with a thermal duty of 15 MW. note that: The composition of syngas derived from biomass is different from that derived from natural gas and coal.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

A quench gasifier uses a water filled quench chamber where the hot syngas is cooled down to around 300 °C and the liquid slag solidifies. GE says that its quench gasifiers (the company offers a range of gasifier designs), offer the lowest capital cost and are well suited for hydrogen, chemicals and polygeneration applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

That report, authored by group co-chairs, Agriculture and Energy Secretaries Vilsack and Chu, and EPA Administrator Jackson, lays out a strategy to advance the development and commercialization of a sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation’s biofuels targets. Feedstock Production Systems – USDA (REE and FS).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The new facility will support the future commercialization of sCO 2 Brayton cycle energy conversion systems by testing and demonstrating the potential energy efficiency and cost benefits of this technology. Today the average efficiency of the US fleet of steam Rankine cycle power plants is in the lower 30% range. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Composed of bulk “defective” vanadium oxide instead of vanadium oxides supported on titanium oxide as in commercial catalysts, the catalyst works at lower temperatures (. The mixture of V(V) and V(IV) oxides showed a 10-fold improvement in the 100 - 150 degrees Celsius range. Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 emissions, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Range of hydrogen production costs, untaxed, for near- to mid-term distributed and centralized pathways. Distributed production options under development include reforming of bio-derived renewable liquids and electrolysis of water. Based on current analysis, this translates to a hydrogen threshold cost of. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The proposed solicitation will cover a broad range of advanced fossil energy projects. The Better Buildings Challenge targets helping American commercial and industrial buildings becoming at least 20% more energy efficient by 2020. A Federal Quadrennial Energy Review. Expanding the Better Buildings Challenge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. Sputtered Thin Films for Very High Power, Efficient, and Low-Cost Commercial SOFCs.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

PERC estimates that operating costs of a propane fleet typically range from 5 to 30% less than a gasoline-powered fleet, when capital costs (vehicle and infrastructure) and operation and maintenance costs are all taken into consideration. The process uses synthesis gas produced from natural gas (NG), coal or petroleum coke.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a wide-ranging Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000397 ) for up to a total of $27 million in Phase III small business awards in the areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy, electricity delivery and energy reliability, fossil energy, and nuclear energy. saline water).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. The team established a NER range of 2.7-7.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2010

BioTfueL is integrating the various technology stages of the biomass-to-liquid process with the intention of commercialization. Uhde’s PRENFLO process is based on the Koppers-Totzek coal gasification process which was developed around 70 years ago. The overall budget for the BioTfueL project is €112.7 million (US$151 million).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Research has shown that Ru, Fe, and Co catalysts working in the temperature range of 200?350 Among these, less expensive Co-based catalysts are optimal choice for industrial synthesis of long-chain hydrocarbons due to their higher hydrocarbon productivity, good stability, and commercial availability.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

In addition, oil sands imports could ultimately increase to a range of 20% to 36% of US oil and refined product imports by 2030 from the 2009 level of 8%, according to the Dialogue ’s first report, The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply. That WTW range is lower than that determined by a number of other studies, IHS CERA notes.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years. Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal. The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For decades, Sasol has been using its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert low-grade coal and gas into synthetic fuels and chemicals. There are two ways to convert CO 2 into a useful range of products using FT chemistry. There are two ways to convert CO 2 into a useful range of products using FT chemistry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Range of average vehicle efficiency. Commercial transportation demand by region. Global demand for energy for commercial transportation is expected to rise by 70% from 2010 to 2040, driven by the projected increase in economic activity and the associated increase in movement of goods and freight. Source: ExxonMobil. Natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In its role, Ceres will evaluate the composition of a broad range of switchgrass and willow plants, and provide biomass samples to CHOREN for thermochemical processing. Results of the study will also assist CHOREN in determining the location of its first commercial-scale BTL facility in the United States. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

A range of advanced technologies developed under Topic Areas 1-4 will be deployed on a truck to demonstrate improvements in vehicle fuel economy and emissions reduction using one of the following approaches: modifying/utilizing an existing “off-the-shelf” or prototype truck; or building a full prototype truck. Energy and Water.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The NAA has stated that the goal of the cross-country, multiday race is to force competitors to confront logistical problems that still plague electric aircraft, like range, battery charging, reliability, and speed. As a rule, higher radio frequencies have higher data capacity, but a shorter range. 6-Gigahertz Wi-Fi Goes Mainstream.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. The projects’ total value is approximately $35.8 PEM), Cambridge, Mass.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

  After understanding the advantages and witnessing the growth tesla had, throughout the following decade, global automakers have been lining up with bold new promises to fully electrify their line range of cars. The hydrogen and oxygen in water are separated using an electrical current in this process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Water will be the primary byproduct. A novel metal complex for electrolysis of water will be used to generate the hydrogen at high rates. This ARPA-E program seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long range plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles. per gallon.

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Driivz

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There are many types of Demand Response programs, ranging from direct compensation-based programs for commercial and industrial customers to savings-based programs for consumer and retail customers. Demand Response is a tool for moderating demand that falls under the broader umbrella of Demand Side Management.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Hydrogen could theoretically be generated by electrolysis of water, powered by clean energy. The truck – the Nikola Tre Fuel Cell semi The higher energy density of the hydrogen – stored at 10,000psi in four 450lb tanks behind the cab – means that the Tre FCEV has longer range (500mi) than competing electric trucks.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Recent developments in lithium ion batteries, and the consequential range improvements of EVs has significantly dampened enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel cells. The reasons are numerous. .

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